Classics Challenge 2017

This is the third year I've participated in the Back to the Classics Challenge. For a few seconds, right as I was struggling to pick my last book of 2016, I was thinking maybe I'd skip it this year. Take the easy way out. But then Karen posted the categories and I realized that of course I couldn't skip it. I love the Classics Challenge! It gets me out of my comfort zone and challenges me and I end up finding all these great books I never would have tried. You really should join in. It's a lot of fun!

Last year, I ended up switching a lot of my books around as the year went on but I still think its fun to try and pick stuff now. Here's what I'm thinking as of now.

1.  A 19th Century Classic - Oliver Twist

2.  A 20th Century Classic - Fellowship of the Ring

3.  A classic by a woman author. Wives and Daughters 

4.  A classic in translation. Still thinking. 

5.  A classic published before 1800 - Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves 

6.  A romance classic - Freckles 

7.  A Gothic or horror classic - Rebecca 


8.  A classic with a number in the title - The Thirty-Nine Steps

9.  A classic about an animal or which includes the name of an animal in the title.  

My Family and Other Animals

10. A classic set in a place you'd like to visit. Ivanhoe

11. An award-winning classic - The Good Earth 

12. A Russian Classic - Anna Karenina